[143] “Millennia” before The Pyralis Effect. Gallifrey is in Kasterborous, and it’s not impossible that the unnamed race that defeated the Pyralis was the Time Lords, although it’s impossible to say exactly when in their history this event would fall.
[144] Image of the Fendahl
[145] Underworld
[146] Death Comes to Time. This sounds like a retelling of the Minyan story, or possibly an indication that there were many such mistakes made in Gallifrey’s past.
[147] Death Comes to Time
[148] Time and Relative
[149] Lungbarrow
[150] The Ancestor Cell
[151] The Doctor’s Wife
[152] Renaissance of the Daleks. The fifth Doctor overrides this circuit to rescue Nyssa and a Knight Templar after they’re killed in 1864, which somewhat begs the question of why he doesn’t do this more often. It’s presumably this circuit that malfunctions and causes the “time track” anomaly seen in The Space Museum. The fact that the Daleks don’t use such a protocol probably accounts for the alternate timeline in which they’re the masters of Earth in Day of the Daleks.
[153] The Dimension Riders
[154] The Eight Doctors, The Infinity Doctors.
[155] The Infinity Doctors
[156] Tomb of Valdemar
[157] The Infinity Doctors
[158] The Infinity Doctors. The implication is that they would be (or had been?) used against the People of the Worldsphere first seen in The Also People.
[159] Divided Loyalties
[160] Dating “The Stolen TARDIS” (DWW #9-11) - The Doctor says “when did it happen? Oh, a long time ago, dates really aren’t important to us time travellers”. Sillarg lands without encountering Gallifrey’s transduction barriers (The Invasion of Time) or other defences, and the city isn’t domed (although it may not be the Capitol, as we know there are other cities on Gallifrey).
[161] Dating “Minatorius” (DWM Winter Special 1981) - Like “The Stolen TARDIS”, this could take place at any time.
[162] Gallifrey: Reborn
[163] The Deadly Assassin
[164] 164 Matrix
[165] The Dimension Riders
[166] Conundrum, referencing The Mind Robber.
[167] So Vile a Sin
[168] Millennial Rites
[169] Christmas on a Rational Planet
[170] The Mutants
[171] The Deadly Assassin
[172] The Leisure Hive
[173] The Trial of a Time Lord
[174] Shada
[175] Revenge of the Judoon
[176] Pier Pressure
[177] The Quantum Archangel
[178] Spiral Scratch. Lakertya appeared in Time and the Rani.
[179] Mawdryn Undead
[180] The Stones of Blood
[181] The Dimension Riders
[182] Legacy
[183] The Devil Goblins from Neptune
[184] A Device of Death
[185] Managra
[186] Timewyrm: Genesys
[187] Damaged Goods
[188] The Impossible Planet, which concurs with information in the novels, such as Cold Fusion and The Taking of Planet 5.
[189] Journey’s End, perhaps intended to explain why the Doctor is so rubbish at piloting the TARDIS, but in defiance of the large number of times in classic Doctor Who (The Time Meddler, every story with the Master, etc.) that TARDISes other than the Doctor’s Ship operate just fine with a single pilot.
[190] Cold Fusion
[191] Goth Opera
[192] The Crystal Bucephalus
[193] The Gallifrey Chronicles
[194] Love and War
[195] The Eight Doctors
[196] First seen in The War Games (suggesting that the technology predates the Doctor leaving Gallifrey) and most recently used in The Doctor’s Wife.
[197] The Sound of Drums
[198] Aliens recognise the Doctor as a Time Lord in The Time Warrior, The Brain of Morbius, Image of the Fendahl, Underworld, The Invasion of Time, The Ribos Operation, State of Decay, The Keeper of Traken, Earthshock, Mawdryn Undead, Frontios, Resurrection of the Daleks, Attack of the Cybermen, Vengeance on Varos, The Two Doctors, Timelash, The Trial of a Time Lord, The Curse of Fenric, Rose, The End of the World, Dalek, Human Nature (TV), The Stolen Earth, The Eleventh Hour, The Doctor’s Wife and A Good Man Goes to War.
[199] The Two Doctors
[200] The War Games
[201] The Time Warrior
[202] The Hand of Fear
[203] The Deadly Assassin, The Invasion of Time.
[204] Scaredy Cat
[205] The Deadly Assassin. Fans and recent writers have rationalised away the Time Lords’ stated “non-intervention” and the clear evidence that they have intervened by assuming that it’s the secret (and in some stories highly sinister) “Celestial Intervention Agency” who are behind the interventions. This builds quite a lot on the one reference in the TV series.
[206] The Kingmaker
[207] The Well-Mannered War
[208] The Deadly Assassin
[209] Damaged Goods
[210] Lungbarrow
[211] Shada
[212] The Ancestor Cell
[213] Shada
[214] Gallifrey: Disassembled
[215] Omega
[216] Gallifrey: Lies
[217] The Deadly Assassin
Time Lord Presidents
The Ancestor Cell says the Doctor was the 407th and 409th President of Gallifrey. The Gallifrey Chronicles says that Romana is the 413th. From this, we can extrapolate that the 405th President was the one killed in The Deadly Assassin (and almost certainly, in a previous incarnation, the one seen in The Three Doctors); the 406th was Greyjan the Sane (The Ancestor Cell); the 407th was the Doctor (he was “inducted” in The Invasion of Time); the 408th was Borusa (the President is referred to by the Doctor in The Ribos Operation, but not named as Borusa until Arc of Infinity. Borusa regenerates once more and his reign ends in The Five Doctors); the 409th is the Doctor; the 410th is Flavia, the 411th is Niroc, who’s corrupt and deposed with the help of the Doctor and Rassilon in The Eight Doctors; the 412th is Flavia again, according to Happy Endings, which is set soon after Romana is installed as the 413th.
[218] Spiral Scratch
[219] Savar is first mentioned in Seeing I, but these events take place “a thousand years” before The Infinity Doctors, as far as Savar is concerned. There was a Time Lord called Savar in The Invasion of Time.
[220] The term “Type 40” was first used in The Deadly Assassin. The Teselecta’s records in Let’s Kill Hitler list the Doctor’s TARDIS as a “Type 40, Mark 3” - in accordance with the Doctor being amazed at the modernity of the Monk’s TARDIS, a “Mark 4”, in The Time Meddler.
[221] Shada
[222] The Pirate Planet
[223] The Creature from the Pit
[224] A Good Man Goes to War. The circumstances of the cot being in the TARDIS becomes more perplexing the more one thinks about it. The cot’s presence might suggest that the TARDIS was some sort of family heirloom, but The Doctor’s Wife says that the Doctor picked the TARDIS because its door was open. If so, did he pack his childhood cot before leaving Gallifrey in such a rush? Did his family keep multiple TARDISes, and he just happened to select the one with his cot in it? Or did he just reclaim the cot during a stopover on Gallifrey? Or is he simply lying to say it’s his cot - did it actually belong to a child of his?
[225] In Time and the Rani, the Doctor deduces the combination to the Rani’s lock is 953, “my age ... and the Rani’s”.
[226] Lungbarrow, with The One Doctor confirming the “Snail” nickname.
[227] SLEEPY (p204).
[228] Closing Time
[229] The Wedding of River Song
[230] Doctor Who - The Movie
Half Human on His Mother’s Side
The eighth Doctor’s airing of his “secret” to Professor Wagg in Doctor Who
- The Movie - that he is “half human on his mother’s side” - has long been a source of debate in fandom, if for no other reason that it seems to go against all manner of stories where the Doctor biologically is no different from a purebred Time Lord. It’s insufficient to claim that the Doctor is just joking with Wagg, because the Master concludes that the Doctor is half-human by looking into a projection of the eighth Doctor’s iris. The “half-human” claim is chiefly limited to just Doctor Who - The Movie, although The Gallifrey Chronicles furthered this by hinting that the Time Lord named Ulysses / Daniel Joyce and the human time traveller Penelope Gate are the Doctor’s parents.
The more likely explanation, however, is that Time Lords can hybridise with other species upon regeneration - the eighth Doctor claims as much in Doctor Who - The Movie (Grace: “Why don’t you have the ability to transform yourself into another species?” The Doctor: “Well, I do, you see, but only when I ‘die’ [i.e. regenerate]”. Some have taken this to mean - owing to the atypical manner of his regeneration (the dulling influence of the anaesthetic, his “changing” in a morgue full of human corpses) - that the eighth Doctor is “half-human” whereas all the other Doctors are full-blooded Time Lords. The notion that Time Lords can hybridise with other species is substantiated in the works of Paul Cornell: a regenerated Time Lord becomes part-Silurian in The Shadows of Avalon, and another becomes part-birdperson in Circular Time: “Spring”.
The IDW mini-series “The Forgotten” tries to reconcile the “half-human” problem by saying that the eighth Doctor once used a half-broken Chameleon Arch (Utopia, the TV version of Human Nature) to convince the Master that he was half-human. There isn’t a particularly good reason in Doctor Who - The Movie as to why this would be helpful, however; in fact, as a means of helping the Master to realise that human eyes can open the Eye of Harmony in the TARDIS, it’s a fairly counter-productive thing to do.
[231] The more descriptive name used for the mysterious woman seen throughout The End of Time (TV), credited on screen as just “the Woman”. Russell T Davies confirmed in his memoir, The Writer’s Tale, that the Woman was intended as the Doctor’s mother, but has acknowledged that other interpretations of the character are fair game.
[232] The Tomb of the Cybermen, further implied in The Curse of Fenric and confirmed in Father’s Day.
[233] Vincent and the Doctor
[234] Time and the Rani. He says, possibly facetiously, “you should see my uncle”.
[235] The Eleventh Hour
[236] Planet of Fire. The sentence isn’t complete, but the next word could well spell out a family relationship (fan speculation over the years has suggested a number of things, usually “brother” and less usually “husband”).
[237] Braxiatel first appears in the NA Theatre of War, and becomes an ongoing character in the Bernice Summerfield range. The Gallifrey audios detail much of his early history. Justin Richards, who created the character, first implied that Braxiatel was the Doctor’s brother in Benny: The Tears of the Oracle (p166-167). The notion was later reinforced by wordplay in Gallifrey: Disassembled (Romana tells Brax concerning an alt-Doctor: “I thought you’d be pleased to see your—”; Brax, as the alt-Doctor strangles him: “Surely, you wouldn’t do this to your own—”), and also in Brax’s description of “an old man and his granddaughter” (presumably the first Doctor and Susan) as “family”.
[238] Smith and Jones, and possibly a reference to Irving Braxiatel.
[239] Planet of the Spiders
[240] Lungbarrow
[241] The Scarlet Empress
[242] See The Doctor’s Age sidebar.
[243] Doctor Who - The Movie
[244] The Infinity Doctors
[245] Cold Fusion
[246] The Gallifrey Chronicles. Penelope Gate first appeared in The Room with No Doors.
[247] “Voyager”
[248] The Quantum Archangel
[249] The Infinity Doctors
[250] The Infinity Doctors, The Taking of Planet 5, The Gallifrey Chronicles.
[251] The Gallifrey Chronicles. The prophecy paraphrases one from an abandoned American pilot script from the nineties. The book shows the Doctor fulfilling the prophecy - assuming the “lost scrolls of Rassilon” are the Matrix files in his mind. He had already made Last Contact in The Daleks, when he made contact with the race that would eventually destroy the Time Lords in the Last Great Time War, as revealled in Dalek.
[252] Smith and Jones
[253] The Eight Doctors
[254] Unnatural History
[255] The Ghosts of N-Space
[256] The Girl in the Fireplace
[257] Night Terrors. The latter is a take-off of the apocryphal 1970s Doctor Who stageplay, Seven Keys to Doomsday, starring Trevor Martin.
[258] SJA: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
[259] The Infinity Doctors
[260] Master. This account is told as a fable, and so may not be true.
[261] The Time Monster
[262] The Time Monster, Planet of the Spiders, State of Decay.
[263] Lungbarrow
[264] The Five Doctors
[265] Shada
[266] Image of the Fendahl
[267] Black Orchid
[268] The Nowhere Place
[269] “Planet Bollywood”
[270] Seasons of Fear
[271] The Gallifrey Chronicles
[272] Serpent Crest: Aladdin Time
[273] The Sound of Drums
[274] The Story of Martha: “The Frozen Wastes”
[275] Combining accounts given in The Sound of Drums and The End of Time (TV). Some have questioned how the appearance of the child Master, the Doctor’s mention of Gallifreyan “families” (both in The Sound of Drums) and the appearance of what the Doctor claims is his cot (A Good Man Goes to War) can be reconciled against the notion of looming as given by the New Adventures. However, accounts of the Doctor’s early life on Gallifrey always seem contradictory - by now, it’s almost a tradition.
[276] The Sound of Drums
[277] “Mortal Beloved”. It seems a stretch, given what we otherwise know of the Doctor’s age and early life, to think that he spent whole centuries at the Academy. Maybe it just felt like centuries.
[278] The Coming of the Terraphiles
[279] The Stolen Earth, Journey’s End.
[280] According to the Master in Last of the Time Lords.
[281] The Fires of Pompeii
[282] The Deadly Assassin
[283] Lungbarrow
[284] Timewyrm: Revelation
[285] Divided Loyalties
[286] Terror of the Autons, The Deadly Assassin, The Armageddon Factor, The Mark of the Rani.
[287] The Time Meddler
[288] The War Games
[289] Arc of Infinity
[290] Terror of the Autons
[291] Divided Loyalties, Neverland.
[292] The Death of Art
[293] Time and the Rani
[294] Or so he claims, perhaps glibly, in The Song of the Megaptera.
[295] Night Thoughts
[296] Mission to Magnus. The back cover to the novelisation of this story (not included in this chronology in favour of the Big Finish audio adaptation) says that Anzor was a bully from the “class of the fourth millennium on Gallifrey”.
[297] The Five Doctors
[298] The Armageddon Factor
[299] Island of Death
[300] World Game
[301] The Deadly Assassin
[302] Lungbarrow
[303] Cat’s Cradle: Time’s Crucible
[304] The Twin Dilemma
[305] Demon Quest: Sepulchre
[306] The Time Monster
[307] The Nightmare Fair
[308] Made of Steel
[309] Goth Opera
[310] Nevermore. This can only be after cats are introduced to the ecosystem. The giant mice are mentioned in The Mark of the Rani.
[311] The Quantum Archangel<
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[312] Match of the Day
[313] Tomb of Valdemar
[314] According to Professor Thripsted’s Genetic Politics Beyond the Third Zone in Christmas on a Rational Planet (p212-216). The Doctor names himself as “Eighth Man Bound” in The Dying Days.
[315] The Eight Doctors
[316] The Armageddon Factor, The Happiness Patrol.
[317] Terror of the Autons
[318] The Quantum Archangel
[319] The Shakespeare Code
[320] “The Age of Ice”
[321] Lungbarrow
[322] The Ribos Operation
[323] The King of Terror
[324] The Scarlet Empress
[325] Verdigris
[326] Excelis Dawns
[327] Iris: The Panda Invasion
[328] The Blue Angel. In Iris: Enter Wildthyme (p283), Marville similarly claims that Iris and her “fabled ancestors” hail from the Obverse... right before Iris blends that and her Gallifreyan origins together with the comment, “Fabled ancestors, my arse! I had a number of peculiar aunts and we lived in a decrepit old house in the mountains.”
[329] Iris: The Land of Wonder
[330] The Daleks
[331] The Chase and The Tomb of the Cybermen suggest the Doctor “built” the TARDIS, An Unearthly Child states that Susan coined the term, although later stories seem to contradict both claims. Some commentators have tried to attribute the Doctor’s statement in The Chase to mean that he only built his Ship’s time-path detector, not the whole Ship, but this is a rationalisation after-the-fact and not borne out by the scene itself. Lungbarrow, at least, supports the notion that Susan created the word “TARDIS” by claiming she was around when TARDISes were relatively new.
[332] Galaxy 4
[333] The End of Time (TV)
[334] The Two Doctors
[335] Carnival of Monsters
[336] The Invisible Enemy
[337] Shada
[338] Cold Fusion, The Infinity Doctors.
[339] Deadly Reunion
[340] World Game
[341] Dating “Flashback” (DWM Winter Special 1992) - “Ancient Gallifrey, or so it seems.” Magnus is apparently the War Chief from The War Games.
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